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FRANCK String Quartet. Piano Quintet

These performances by the Quatuor Danel are deftly poised on a knife’s edge between sensuousness and rigour, as the most...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

DVOŘÁK String Quintet. Sting Sextet

‘I always have the feeling that people don’t admire this piece enough’, said Johannes Brahms of Dvořák’s String Sextet. I’ll...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018

BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Hungarian Dances

The late Joan Chissell, reviewing Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim’s recording of the two Brahms sonatas (EMI, 12/68), said...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

DVOŘÁK; TCHAIKOVSKY; BORODIN String Quartets

I didn’t think they still made discs like this – three of the best-loved Romantic string quartets, grouped together for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018

Beethoven Piano Trios (Isimsiz; Rautio)

The Rautio Piano Trio played Mozart on period instruments for their Resonus debut (9/16). Here, in a programme of Beethoven,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

JS BACH The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

In his booklet note Ottavio Dantone pays the usual tributes to the awesome compositional achievement of The Art of Fugue...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2018

ADÈS Arcadiana. Piano Quintet. The Four Quarters

Adès’s first string quartet, Arcadiana (1994), was premiered a year before Powder Her Face. That this is its sixth recording...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2018

Deux

In the moments before pressing play on any new recording from Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the only thing you can be absolutely...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 25 & 27

I wonder if Piotr Anderszewski has it in mind to record all of Mozart’s major piano concertos. This is his...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2018

STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring. Concerto for 2 Pianos

In August 2015 I assessed a clutch of new recordings of the four-hands version of The Rite of Spring and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2018

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